PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

In 2023, oil and gas operations in our commonwealth wasted $178 million-worth of natural gas – That was enough gas to serve the heating and cooking needs of 820,000 households – more than enough gas for every household in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh combined for one year. Let’s lead the nation in clean energy progress.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

EPA is reconsidering these regulations to ensure they do not prevent America from unleashing energy dominance and continuing our trajectory as a leader in clean energy and emissions reductions. “We The non-compliance even extends to annual reports the industry has to submit to the Oil and Gas Program. Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Future capacity auctions for delivery in 2026/27 and 2027/28 can still see more increases, but will have a price cap of $325/MW-day and a floor of $175/MW-day as a result of a settlement PJM entered into as a result of a lawsuit brought by Gov. MW-day to $269.92/MW-day-- MW-day-- a 933% increase. Read more here.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

The Avonlea/Kendra II facility in Springville and the Gradiant/C2G facility in Montrose showcased groundbreaking technologies that recover lithium from fracking brine—reducing environmental waste while strengthening America's energy independence. These facilities represent the future of American energy,” said Congressman Meuser.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Well owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Well owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Read more here. Well completed in 2011.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN] -- PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. Shapiro: Legal Action Against PJM Saved PA Consumers An Estimated $1.6 19-21, Sept. 19-21, Sept. 19-21, Sept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

On July 28, the US Environmental Protection Agency formally issued an interim final rule extending several deadlines for industry compliance with national methane standards for new and existing oil and gas facilities, known as Section 111, OOOOb/c of the Clean Air Act. In 2023, oil and gas companies wasted $3.5

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Shapiro: What Labor, Industry, Environmental, Consumer Leaders Are Saying About The Lightning Energy Plan To Secure Pennsylvanias Energy Future -- PublicNewsService.org: PA Works To Counter Presidents Clean Energy Rollbacks With Lightning Energy Plan -- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Gov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

4 Webinar - Rewild Your Yard: How Meadows Support Pollinators And Clean Water [PaEN] -- Call For Posters: Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay 2025 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Nov. 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. 7, 21, Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

As selective demolition gets underway at the site, we are working collectively with our partners to develop a waste diversion plan in line with ECOs sustainability objectives, shared Michael Volpatt. The Etna Center for Community is expected to open in Spring-Summer 2026.

2004

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

PaEN] -- Reuters: PJM, America’s Largest Power Grid, Is Struggling To Meet Demand From A.I.; Electricity Bills Are Projected To Surge 20% This Summer [ PDF of Article ] -- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: As More A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Dauphin County -- PennDOT Focus On Innovations, Including Using Environment-Friendly Products, EV Charging Build Out -- LevitttownNow.com: Waste Management Opens $131 Million Landfill Gas Facility In Falls Twp., Megawatts -- PennLive: 22 Bay Electric Vehicle Charging Station Opens In Lower Swatara Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants From DEP -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Production, waste generation and well integrity reports not submitted. Clyde Swank 1 conventional well in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and unplugged, leaking gas, with no annual production, waste generation or well integrity reports. Violations issued. Response requested by February 28.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

The project is moving forward on schedule for completion in 2026. Also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued. Response requested by March 21. DEP inspection report example.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, in November 2016, the Obama administrations Bureau of Land Management (BLM) promulgated a regulation to reduce waste of natural gas from venting, flaring, and leaks during oil and natural gas production activities on public and Tribal lands. Lawsuits challenging Trump administration actions to derail clean energy projects.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2025

It appears that most, if not all, SfA awardees are using 2025 as a planning year and anticipate launching their offerings in mid-to-late 2025 or early 2026. For example, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, which received a $62,450,000 award from EPA, expects to launch its offerings in waves.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

To its credit, the Shapiro Administration was able to obtain a 14% increase in DEP funding in the fiscal year 2024-2025 budget, while calling for an additional 12% increase in DEP funding in the 2025-2026 budget. Shapiro has spoken extensively about the importance of clean energy.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

For our existing sites in PJM, this means that we are working to bring on a portfolio of new, round-the-clock carbon-free generation resources that can produce as much or more energy each hour than we consume. In 2007, Google committed to carbon neutrality in its operations. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

The DOE could decide to shut down its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which helps launch emerging clean technologies, as early as next week, sources familiar with the matter have told Latitude Media. The point being that hes making unusual demands of staff.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

- By Maya K. 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Conservation

Legal Planet

MAY 28, 2025

House members who spoke up in defense of the clean energy tax credits actually had the political bravery to vote against the Trump’s big budget bomb which tries to snuff out these incentives to the detriment of their state and constituents. Bad news None of the 21 Republican U.S. Mendocino County sits on a prime geothermal zone.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

Waste Permits - Comment -- Southern Alleghenies Biogas, LLC - Southern Alleghenies Landfill Gas Facility: DEP invites comments on a renewal of a WMGM055 Waste General Permit for the landfill gas facility located in Conemaugh Twp., Received Jan. Lycoming County. ( Philadelphia. ( Read more here. Somerset County. Received Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Million In Grants [PaEN] -- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Graduates Class Of 2025 Young Ambassadors of Pennsylvania; Apply Now For Class Of 2026 [PaEN] -- TribLive: PennDOT Worker Taken To Hospital After Driver Hits Litter Cleanup Truck In Allegheny County -- Save The Date! Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4%

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2025

Given the summit’s emphasis on fossil gas infrastructure and its alignment with national figures whose agenda conflicts with Pennsylvania’s clean‑energy future, Governor Shapiro should not attend,” said Gail Neustadt, Allegheny County resident. Do you want that to be your legacy?" “We This cost must not be ignored.” stated Barbara W.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Potter County [PaEN] -- Governors Updated Regulatory Agenda Includes Proposed Annual Permit Fee For Shale Gas Wells; Updated Conventional Waste Disposal and Coproduct Waste Regs. 27 Webinar: General Update Of Large-Scale Solar In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: Solar Energy Projects On Manheim Twp.

Conservation

Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2025

billion in funding for CPB for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 — money already allocated. Heatmap News has created one big beautiful cheat sheet for how clean energy policy has changed over the last couple decades, including IRA and OBBBA. It will be free, and it will be independent-and it will belong to all of our people.”

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

The November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, includes an $8 billion “regional clean hydrogen hubs” program that charges the Department of Energy (DOE) with the development of at least four hydrogen hubs to advance the nation’s clean hydrogen sector.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Once the battery looks up to code, it is off to the grid to power our renewable energy future! Battery energy storage is powerful and growing. Battery energy storage can help store clean energy for the grid. Wood Mackenzie estimates that the US will add more than 63 gigawatts more batteries by 2026.

Wind Power

Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

As for waste management and ecosystems, Regulated Entities shall disclose the contingency plan for major environmental incidents, and the specific circumstances and administrative penalties, if any. The Guidelines encourage but do not require Regulated Entities to involve third-party verification institutions to audit the data.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For DEP, the Agenda includes a proposed regulation establishing an annual permit fee for shale gas wells [ Read more here ] and updated waste management regulations covering conventional oil and gas operations [ Read more here ].

Waste

Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The proposed initiatives and enablers for each domain are listed below: Notable Decarbonisation Initiatives National SAF target and SAF levy – From 2026, flights departing Singapore will be required to use at least 1% of SAF. This also aligns with the Energy Market Authority’s plans to reduce Singapore’s national grid emission factor.

Solar Power

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 8, 2025

Michelle Lujan Grishams Strategic Water Supply program, a 50-year water action plan, regulatory frameworks for this treated water would be in place by 2026, and 100,000 acre-feet of water for clean energy production, storage and manufacturing would be used by 2028. Record lows, meanwhile, were set 38 percent more often.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

FRIDAY Noon: PA Solar Center Hosts Webinar Update On PA Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, Community Solar Legislation + Review 2021-22 AEPS Compliance Report. Supply Growth -- The Guardian: Nearly 120 Million In U.S.

Earth Day